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Maybe I'm seeing it too much black and white -- CLIs vs GUIs, while there are intermediates like TUIs. Why I think that way... I always had the feeling that peo
by nuancebydefault 4y ago
Maybe I'm seeing it too much black and white -- CLIs vs GUIs, while there are intermediates like TUIs.
Why I think that way... I always had the feeling that people opting for CLI alternatives more look at the formal content, less so the way it is presented.
- altairprime 4y agoI prefer terminals because I can express my commands clearly through them. I prefer polished UIs because they help sharpen my focus away from their flaws and into my work. I prefer command line tools with polished UIs. I enjoy color highlighting. I run my editor in 256color mode. I wish a restricted set of CSS was available through libncurses via ESC[ commands, with optional downgrade via term cap to Unicode characters like these one-eighth ones, so that we didn’t all have to suffer quite so much “UI is optional” default neglect from command line tool designs. (One that includes features for terminals newer than decades ago! Like tables, and borders :)